Cache and Kerry
From the Drudge Report:
NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...
The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]
Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."
"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.
In an election week rush:
**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times
But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!
More HERE and HERE.
Naturally, the Kerry Kamp jumped onto this story faster than the junior senator from Boston jumped on the Red Sox bandwagon this year.
Things not worth holding your breath for include:
a) an apology from John Kerry to President Bush, whom Kerry directly blamed for this missing cache of explosives.
b) an apology to the American people for being an opportunistic grab-ass, who criticizes the president for hastily acting on intelligence gathered from multiple intelligence agencies throughout the world, yet takes the word of the New York Times as the supreme truth and gospel.
c) a retraction from the Boston Globe, as prominently placed (page A1 - above the fold) and with as large a font size. Click HERE for picture of today's Boston Globe front page.
d) prime-time coverage of the inaccuracies of the NY Times piece by anyone in the mainstream media (with the exception of NBC News).
Stay tuned for the laughable spin soon to be applied to Kerry's comments by his advisers, and to see just how deep in the paper, any future correction by the Boston Globe and New York Times will be buried.
And for those of you keeping score at home, the President rushed to war AND failed to go into Iraq soon enough to secure these explosives.
Got it?
NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...
The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]
Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles."
"This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.
In an election week rush:
**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times
But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!
More HERE and HERE.
Naturally, the Kerry Kamp jumped onto this story faster than the junior senator from Boston jumped on the Red Sox bandwagon this year.
On Monday, Kerry blamed President Bush for the disappearance of tons of explosives from an Iraqi stockpile.
"And now we know that our country and our troops are less safe because this president failed to do the basics," Kerry said at a campaign appearance in Dover, New Hampshire.
Things not worth holding your breath for include:
a) an apology from John Kerry to President Bush, whom Kerry directly blamed for this missing cache of explosives.
b) an apology to the American people for being an opportunistic grab-ass, who criticizes the president for hastily acting on intelligence gathered from multiple intelligence agencies throughout the world, yet takes the word of the New York Times as the supreme truth and gospel.
c) a retraction from the Boston Globe, as prominently placed (page A1 - above the fold) and with as large a font size. Click HERE for picture of today's Boston Globe front page.
d) prime-time coverage of the inaccuracies of the NY Times piece by anyone in the mainstream media (with the exception of NBC News).
Stay tuned for the laughable spin soon to be applied to Kerry's comments by his advisers, and to see just how deep in the paper, any future correction by the Boston Globe and New York Times will be buried.
And for those of you keeping score at home, the President rushed to war AND failed to go into Iraq soon enough to secure these explosives.
Got it?
